The main objective of the HESPERIA Palaeohispanic Languages Data Bank is to collect, organise and
process all ancient linguistic material relating to the Iberian Peninsula (and any related material
in the south of France), with the exception of Latin, Greek and Phoenician inscriptions. Thus, the
HESPERIA Data Bank includes every text in the Palaeohispanic languages (Iberian, Celtiberian,
Lusitanian and the language of the Southwestern inscriptions), coin legends, indigenous onomastics
(anthroponyms, toponyms, ethnonyms and theonyms in the aforementioned languages, as well as those of
Vasconian and Turdetanian) conveyed in Greco-Latin epigraphic or literary sources and Hispanic
glosses conveyed by ancient authors.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.